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Name of Place: Martock; County: Somerset; Number of Miles from: Ilchester – 5; S. Petherton – 2; Yeovil – 7; Dist. Lond. – 130; Population: 2841.

Martock. Here is a spacious market-place, near which is a handsome fluted column, a model of the celebrated pillar of Trajan, at Wilton-house, the seat of the Earl of Pebroke .

Market, Wednesday and Saturday. – Fairs, second Thursday in October for hogs and pedlers’ ware.

Source: England and Wales Delineated by Thomas Dugdale assisted by William Burnett; published by Tallis & Co., Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey, 1835.